Principal Security Engineer (Cloud-Native)

Location: United States (Remote). Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without employer-sponsored visa support.

Salary: $132,232–$242,425 USD annually.

Company

hirify.global, a Lumen company, builds a programmable cloud-native networking platform for connecting, securing, and operating clouds, sites, partners, data centers, and AI workloads.

What you will do

• Define and drive long-term security architecture and strategy across cloud, infrastructure, application, platform, and operational security.
• Own the HackerOne bug bounty program, including triage, severity assessment, remediation coordination, and researcher communication.
• Lead security architecture reviews and establish secure design, implementation, and deployment standards for cloud-native systems.
• Drive threat modeling, vulnerability management, risk reduction, security assessments, and scalable security automation.
• Build detection engineering and security monitoring on Coralogix, and lead investigations, incident response, and post-incident improvements.
• Partner with engineering and business leaders, mentor teams, and establish security governance and technical standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, security engineering, infrastructure security, or cloud security.
• Deep expertise securing large-scale cloud-native environments, distributed systems, and modern application platforms.
• Advanced Kubernetes security expertise, including workload protection, container security, platform hardening, and runtime security.
• Expert Linux administration, hardening, automation, troubleshooting, and system-level security experience.
• Ability to write production-quality automation and tooling in Go, Python, or a comparable language.
• Experience across cloud security, application security, infrastructure security, identity and access management, and security operations.
• Extensive experience with threat modeling, risk assessments, vulnerability management, and security architecture reviews.
• Ability to lead technical strategy, influence executive stakeholders, and drive security outcomes across large engineering organizations.

Nice to have

• Experience securing large-scale SaaS, cloud infrastructure, networking, or platform engineering environments.
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps, software supply chain security, Infrastructure-as-Code security, and CI/CD security controls.
• Experience designing cloud security architectures across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Experience building security automation, detection engineering, monitoring, and incident response capabilities.
• Knowledge of SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, CIS, and related security frameworks and regulatory standards.
• Experience leading cross-functional security programs and large-scale security transformation initiatives.
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, GIAC, CKS, or cloud security certifications.
• Master’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Security, or a related technical discipline.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote role within the United States in a fast-moving, AI-focused organization.
• Clear expectations, trust, shared accountability, and connected collaboration.
• Participation in an on-call rotation for security alerts and incoming threats.
• Background screening may include criminal records, motor vehicle reports, or drug screening depending on position requirements.

Hiring process

• Coding challenge.
• Screening with the hiring manager.
• Technical interviews.